Patrick Vlaskovits

@carrynointerest @jeffreyhuber It's not silly. As marketing channels mature, it gets harder to squeeze ROI out of them.

@jeffreyhuber The value of rag is done Completely cooked by inference api infra The value of all llm infra trends towards zero 🤷 See how silly that is

email as a channel is done completely cooked by AI SDR the value of all marketing channels trends towards zero

ABSOLUTELY NAILED IT.

If AI makes building and maintaining software much cheaper: Amazon is making massive mistake in retiring their own response to Zoom (it should be v cheap to maintain!) If maintaining software remains expensive even with AI, rebuilding a nontrivial SaaS in-house could be a mistake I do appreciate the enthusiasm to rebuild stuff, and we’ll learn in 1-2 years if it was worth it! Trying better than speculating tbh Source of Amazon announcement: aws.amazon.com/blogs/messagin…

As AI coding tools went mainstream, Amazon decided it’s not worth them supporting their Zoom clone, called Chime (that has paying customers!) And yet startups are assuming it’s worth rebuilding and supporting their own JIRA clones (with no paying customers) Who is mistaken?

This is your weekly reminder about cappuccino: it's not Italian, but Austrian. Coming from Vienna, it's original name is: Kapuziner. So Italians have absolutely no authority telling you when and how to drink it.

Unpopular Opinion: We aren't building the future 10x faster with AI. We are just generating legacy code 10x faster. Everyone is currently bragging about developer velocity. "I built this entire backend in a weekend!" "AI wrote 80% of my codebase!" But here is the reality check we are ignoring: Code is a liability, not an asset. If an AI tool spits out 1,000 lines of functional boilerplate in five seconds, that is still 1,000 lines that a human being has to read, review, secure, and maintain when the dependencies inevitably break next year. We are treating code generation like a pure productivity win, but we are optimizing for the wrong metric. The bottleneck in software engineering was never how fast we could type. The bottleneck has always been comprehension, architecture, and maintenance. If we don't shift our focus from "generation speed" to "architectural sanity," the tech debt of the next five years is going to be an absolute, unmaintainable nightmare.

The cofounder and CTO of Perplexity, @denisyarats just said internally at Perplexity they’re moving away from MCPs and instead using APIs and CLIs 👀

"I used AI to rebuild X" is the new "I could build that over the weekend" you used to see on HN all the time. And in neither case was it or is it true. You can certainly a subset of a few cool, useful workflows super-fast -- (above the ice-berg waterline) but all the unfun, boring and often unintuitive stuff that took a ton of blood, sweat and tears to get right below the water-line, is still a grind.... And then security, and then maintaining it...

The end of the Uber story: after 3 years of a few-person dev team building what was a subpar Slack: they moved to Slack. This is the thing with “rebuilding JIRA:” you don’t realize you forgot to build eg auditing, backups, disaster recovery etc until you actually needed them yesterday

Cannot wait for teams that build their custom JIRA/Workday replacement/custom CRM to one day turn around and ask: “Why do we have so much internal software that is buggy / has poor UX + we need to maitain?” Seen this movie well before AI, when Uber built uChat (custom Slack)

@morganb @CaseyA @CaseyA is trying to drag me some lame hipster new coffee shop in Costa Mesa.

@Pv @CaseyA I’m around!

Modern kids didn’t grow up playing driveway basketball, and it shows. Back in the day, when you played driveway ball, you had to pass. Why? Because the hoop was crooked, the driveway sloped, someone’s dad’s Buick was in the paint, and the rule was no dunking because you’ll break the rim. SOOOOOOOOOO: You learned spacing. You learned ball movement. You learned that the fastest way to get yelled at or never see the ball was to dribble for 10 seconds and jack up a bad shot. Now fast-forward to modern youth lacrosse (& every other field sport) and what do you see? Kids either passing into or running straight into triple coverage like that’s normal. Shitty passes. Nobody celebrating the sick pass to his bud. My conclusion:
 The collapse of driveway basketball has directly led to a generational decline in passing IQ across American youth sports. This is a sociological crisis and I will be publishing a paper shortly.

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story. So here it is. I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school. Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger. 70% of the time? They didn't need it. The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays. I got angry enough to build something about it. I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this." 6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll. I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work. But something shifted. Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter. I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people. If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try. EVchargeright.com

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@Pv would watch a ted talk on this

@morganb It's real. PS I'm in OC & LA next week. Gonna see @CaseyA. You around?

my problem with the whole "software is solved" crowd is that i can literally see software not being solved cursor breaks every other commit, giving you code from a session from last week aws and cloudflare break almost monthly now buggy and slow software everywhere

On my timeline: - “Engineers haven’t written code in 3 months.” - “SaaS apocalypse.” - “PMs are obsolete.” - “If you’re not running 10 coding agents in parallel, you’re ngmi.” - Crab costumes In our repo: - “You are absolutely right!!! Great catch!!!” - Agent deletes half the file and rewrites it right away. - Hallucinated API endpoints. - 47 new tests. 2 are actually testing something non-superficial. - README .md README_SUMMARY .md FINAL_SUMMARY_V2_ACTUAL_FINAL .md Goal Architect. But in the meantime… Senior Slop Janitor. If you feel that tension, we’re hiring builders in NYC.

Calling it right now. Being offline is going to become the new luxury activity in the coming years. It's going to be marketed as a high status social signal. It will be considered low class and uncouth to be on the Internet. There will be a boom in outdoor activities/supper clubs.

I don’t think self vibecoded software is the future for businesses A couple of months ago I vibecoded a tool for a friends business his entire staff has been using it for six months now (37 people) the thing is, he’s constantly sending me feature requests, bug fixes The app is pretty complicated since it deals with insurance benefits verification so for someone that doesn’t have software development experience you can’t just prompt to fix it (believe me, he tried) recently, the API provider changed something that broke everything he’s getting really tired of dealing with it and as Peer points out that’s why saas was built in the first place somebody who’s not in the software business will find it really annoying to now have to deal with all the maintenance saas is not dead